Personal statement
Charles MacLeod is a Professor in the Centre for Ultrasonic Engineering.
He is the Babcock International Group / Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Sensor-Driven Automated Welding.
He is director of the Sensor Enabled Automation & Robotics Control Hub (SEARCH), a £24M research innovation and technology transfer laboratory. Aligned to this, he is Course Director of the Autonomous Robotic Intelligent Systems (ARIS) MSc.
His research is primarily associated with the inspection and manufacturing enhancement of high-value assets and components, where he leads a number of high-profile inter-disciplinary in-process welding and metal additive research projects.
He has driven and co-developed core robotic and ultrasonic technology from fundamental EPSRC research, which is now being licensed by a leading industrial organisation and co-developed an innovative inspection robot for a critical life-extension inspection at Sellafield Reprocessing Facility.
He is the PI and designer of the Engaging Robotic Interactive Cell (ERIC) STEM Outreach cell.
His research interests include:
Non-Destructive Evaluation
In-Process Inspection of Fusion Welding & Metal Additive Components
Sensors including Ultrasonic, Electromagnetic, Tactile and Visual
Automation & Robotics
Automated Manufacturing & Welding
Teaching Activities.
Course Director: Autonomous Robotic Intelligent Systems (ARIS) MSc.
Module Registrar: EE987 Sensors & Instrumentation
Lecturer: EE312 Instrumentation and Microcontrollers
Professional activities
- Högskolan Väst Additive Manufacture & Automation Workshop
- Participant
- 30/11/2022
- KUKA Strategic Partnership Foundation
- Participant
- 24/11/2022
- Developments of in-process NDE techniques for Wire + Arc Additive Manufacture at University of Strathclyde
- Contributor
- 30/10/2022
- Sensor Enabled Automation
- Contributor
- 14/9/2022
- A novel signal processing technique to remove electrical interference from ultrasonic RF A-scans
- Speaker
- 7/9/2022
- Process to part inspection: using hybrid robotics to enable flexible manufacturing NDT
- Contributor
- 6/9/2022
More professional activities
Projects
- Investigating the effect of residual stress on hydrogen cracking in multi-pass robotic welding and additive manufacturing
- Javadi, Yashar (Principal Investigator) MacLeod, Charles Norman (Co-investigator) Alipooramirabad, Houman (Co-investigator)
- The aim of this project is the development of a round-robin Residual Stress (RS) measurement to investigate the effect of the RS on hydrogen cracking. Dr Javadi (PI) is leading the RS area in the Center for Ultrasonic Engineering (CUE) and he has been a Keynote Speaker at the 11th International Conference on Residual Stress (ICRS 11) where he presented his novel idea on RS measurement using the Phased Array Ultrasonic Testing (PAUT) method [1]. This method will also be used to study the effect of RS on hydrogen cracking. In this Strathclyde-ANSTO collaboration, ANSTO will conduct the Neutron Diffraction (ND) to form the round-robin RS measurement project.
[1] Y. Javadi et al., "Feasibility study of residual stress measurement using phased array ultrasonic method," presented at the 11th International Conference on Residual Stress, Nancy, France, 27-30 March, 2022. - 21-Jan-2023 - 20-Jan-2023
- Automated In-Process Inspection for Welding and Additive Manufacture (RAEng POC)
- MacLeod, Charles Norman (Principal Investigator)
- 09-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2023
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Agnew, William
- MacLeod, Charles Norman (Principal Investigator) Pierce, Gareth (Co-investigator) Agnew, William (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2026
- Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) - Bridging the Gaps (BTG) – Net Zero / Circular Economy
- Javadi, Yashar (Principal Investigator) Lotfian, Saeid (Co-investigator) MacLeod, Charles Norman (Co-investigator) Mehmanparast, Ali (Co-investigator) Pierce, Gareth (Co-investigator) Brennan, Feargal (Co-investigator) Gachagan, Anthony (Co-investigator)
- In-situ Robotic and Ultrasonic Stress Measurement for Predictive Maintenance of Offshore Wind Bolted Flange Connections
- 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2023
- Ultrasound and Eddy Currents Sensor data Fusion for Welding and Additive manufacturing
- Mohseni, Ehsan (Principal Investigator) Javadi, Yashar (Co-investigator) MacLeod, Charles Norman (Co-investigator) Pierce, Gareth (Co-investigator) Wathavana Vithanage, Randika Kosala (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2023
- KTP 13263 - Inspectahire Instrument Co Limited. Development of a portable fluid level measuring device for use in the hazardous zoned area of bonded warehouses to enable owners to monitor cask contents.
- Dobie, Gordon (Principal Investigator) MacLeod, Charles Norman (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2024
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